They're already making suggestions. Got one this morning telling me I can ask it for updates on Amazon packages.
Speaking of which, anyone have any suggestions for better smart speakers?
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Easy fix:
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What the fuck is Alexa+ 🤣🤣🤣
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Alexa already periodically makes "suggestions" that are annoying to disable if you misspeak.
Counting down until it starts demanding credit cards in order to function. Maybe as a form of "identity check", as that's been a popular excuse to collect payment information.
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Like always, Black Mirror has an episode on this.
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*Amazon testing public backlash before shoving ads into your conversations with Alexa+
FTFY
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Got 8 Google Minis around the house, mostly ceiling mount. First ad that comes out that bitches mouth, I'm taking a 12-gauge to every motherfucking one of them, patch the roof later.
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I bought an Alexa echo long before I actually cared about privacy and I regret it a lot. It's been a pricey paper weight since then. I wish I could flash some kind of OS and use it as a sound bar or something. I can't even use the Bluetooth without signing in with amazon account, which requires a lot of data including phone number.
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Duh. This is the AI wet dream. Ads won't have discrete patterns that can be filtered. The LLM will deliver content specific garbage as if it were a genuine answer to a query. It will just bias towards ads and deliver the ad Ina different personalized manner each time. For as much as everyone likes to bitch about AI. This may be the golden age. It probably just gets worse from here.
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Alexa has ads since the beginning and I can’t imagine that would change just because they are replacing the backend with AI. The first time Echo wasted my time trying to selling me something in my own home was also the last time. I don’t understand how anyone can be okay with that.
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Their users will accept this.
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It won’t be long until the LLMs are trained with for ad-RAG
While each conversation happens a second model will scan it, send the contents to a vector search, return as embedding and a score, then give those outputs silently to the conversing model.
You do need to train/fine tune the model to not mention that it received the ad and subtly push it.
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I’m amazed it didn't already as someone who has never used or heard one being used. What’s the business model? Just the data harvesting for purpose of their other businesses?
I’m pretty sure Amazon got this idea from Black Mirror’s latest season
Anyone see the newest Black Mirror season?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_%28Black_Mirror%29
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I can't even stand when my Google assistant says more than three words to respond 😂 if I start hearing ads out of that thing I will get rid of it faster than anything I've ever done
Now introducing Alexa Luxe
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As if I was ever stupid enough to use Alexa.
"brought to you by Carls Jr."
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They already do…
Good, make it as terrible as possible.
Make the bad even worse. Is there a word for this?
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So, South park?
And yet people will buy it, like they did with Nintendo switch 2! See you when it really happens.
All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of mount Nicaragua !
I'm sorry, people still have or use these things?
Who is this stupid or lazy?
You’re still using Alexa? Unplugged our listening er pod device about a week after we got it.
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